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United States US
Trafficker, 68 from Tanzania. Recruited Victim for domestic servitude. Promised £21 per month for her daughters college fees and £10 per month pocket money. However, confiscated victims documents and made her work from 6.00 am until 12.00 am every day.
United States US
News story below: http://www.khon2.com/mostpopular/story/Owners-of-Aloun-Farm-Indicted-on-Human/F0B-S_6AlU6b95Op_qDHBg.cspx * o Developing Stories o Earthquake in Haiti o First Video o Hawaii News o Wake Up 2day o National News o World Report o Business News o Government News o Education News o Health News o Entertainment News o Action Line o Product Recalls o News Tips o Slideshows o Most Popular o Odd News Side Navigation * News o 2010 Winter Olympics NEW! o Developing Stories o Earthquake in Haiti o Hawaii News o Wake Up 2day o World Report * KHON2 Alerts o Mobile Local News o SMS Alerts o Weather Alerts o Email Alerts * Marketplace o Contests o Find a Job o Lifestyle Guides o Travel Deals * Features o Akamai Living o Be Green 2 o Elderhood Project o In Sickness & In Health o Lokahi Project * Only on KHON2 o Action Line o Dollars and Sense o Hawaii's Most Wanted o Hawaii's Kitchen o Love Your Pet o Navy News o Ron's Resolution NEW! o Supergeeks * Community o Community Calendar o KHON2 on Facebook o KHON2 on Twitter o Site Comments o User Content * Games o Jeopardy! o Mahjong o Fruity Flip Flop o Thunder Alley o Connect Four * Programming o FOX on Demand o CW o Wheel Of Fortune o Oprah o Dr. Phil o Regis and Kelly * Inside KHON2 o News Tips o Talent Profiles o Employment o Order a News Story o Advertise on KHON2 o Contact KHON2 o KHON2 on KSSK o FCC Compliance Owners of Aloun Farm Indicted on Human Trafficking Charges Last Update: 8/28/2009 12:19 pm Print Story | ShareThis Set Text Size Small Set Text Size Medium Set Text Size Large Set Text Size X-Large The Justice Department announced the indictment of three men charged in human trafficking conspiracy for exploiting Thai farm workers in Hawaii. Alec Souphone Sou and Mike Mankone Sou, owners of Aloun Farm in Hawaii, and Thai labor recruiter William Khoo were charged yesterday for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and visa fraud. The charges arise from the defendants' alleged scheme to coerce the labor and services of Thai nationals brought by the defendants to Hawaii to work under the federal agricultural guest worker program. Both Sou defendants are also charged with conspiring to commit document servitude. If convicted, Alec and Mike Sou each face maximum sentences of 15 years in prison and Khoo faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. According to the indictment, Alec Sou, Mike Sou and William Khoo conspired and devised a scheme to obtain the labor of 44 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to Aloun Farm in Hawaii with false promises of lucrative jobs, and then maintaining their labor at the farm through threats of serious economic harm. They arranged for the Thai workers to pay high recruitment fees, which were financed by debts secured with the workers' family property and homes. The indictment claims significant portions of these fees went to the defendants. After arrival at Aloun Farm, the Sou defendants confiscated the Thai nationals' passports and failed to honor the employment conracts. The Sou defendants maintained the Thai nationals' labor by threatening to send them back to Thailand, where they would face serious economic harms created by the debts. The indictment charges that the defendants engaged in a visa fraud conspiracy by making false representations in documents filed to obtain employment-based visas. The case of being investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
United States US
A 14 year old girl was reported missing. Meanwhile, Police were investing Braggs for prior suspicion of kidnapping and pimping. The girl missing after liberation told authorities, she was "kid napped while riding a bus, sexually assulted and forced to take hig doses of GHB and ecstasy" She also was tattooed on her chest with the words "King Snipe's (tafficker's street name) Bitch". The victim liberated also told authorities, she witnessed, "Other women forced to go out into the street at night only to come back with a fixed amount of money. If the women did not bring enough money back were beaten" 14 year old ran away due to threats from Bragg to "harm her family if she did not return"
United States US
Moises and Maria Rodriguez, were agricultural contractors who brought illegal immigrants to America and forced them to live as virtual prisoners as they worked off their debts. In this case there were 5 men who were contracted out to a local organic farm. The men were held in debt bondage - Rodriguez contended that each man owed him money for smuggling them into the U.S. - he put the price somewhere between $1,100 and $1,300. He charged them $100 a month for rent, $96 a month for a transportation fee, and money for bathroom cleaning - even though most of the toilets didn't work and the one that did was filthy. He charged them Social Security taxes but didn't turn that money over to the federal government. In addition they lived in fear of retribution should they flee and their housing was awful.
United States US
This case was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David P. Steinkamp. Baynes was sentenced to 96 months in prison on one count of transportation to engage in a commercial sex act.
United States US
Chris Smiley - 27 years old - The victim tried to escape but she says Smiley "pointed a black semi-automatic gun at her and hit her in the side of the head with it" saying "You know what happens to the girls that try to run?" Ayannah Willis - 26 years old - The victim told police that night Willis threatened to "rape her with the knife." The victim says that's when Willis told her she would have to prostitute herself to pay off her parents' drug debt: she "would perform sexual acts and sexual intercourse with several men a day from ads" on "Craig’s list" and "live links" phone line. Latoya Harlin - 21 years old -Court documents detail the relationships of the three, who called themselves "Team Smiley."
United States US
"JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) – Six arrests were made due to crimes discovered during a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office targeting child prostitution, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. Ian Sean Gordon, 29, of Tallahassee, was charged with sex trafficking of a minor. Gordon is accused of enticing the minor and of forcing her to engage in commercial sex acts. If convicted, Gordon faces a sentence ranging from 15 years in prison to life behind bars. Melvin Eugene Friedman, 45, of Jacksonville, was indicted for sex trafficking of a minor, conspiracy to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base, aiding and abetting in the possession of cocaine base, using a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Friedman allegedly enticed a minor while knowing that she would be forced to engage in prostitution. The defendant is also a cocaine dealer and uses his own residence for distributing narcotics. Friedman was previously convicted of manslaughter, sale or delivery of cocaine, and possession of burglary tools. He faces a minimum sentence of20 years and a maximum penalty of two consecutive life sentences plus 70 years. Phillip Anthony Aiken, 28, Oris Alexander English, 45, and Alfredo Martinez Riquene, 42, all from Jacksonville, were charged with sex trafficking of a minor. They allegedly obtained a minor, knowing that the child would be used in prostitution acts. If convicted, each defendant faces a mandatory sentence of 10 years and a maximum term of life imprisonment. Antonio D. Ford, 28, of Jacksonville, was charged with misprision of a felony. The indictment charges that Ford knew about the sex trafficking of a minor and failed to notify federal authorities." -BNO News http://wireupdate.com/wires/8687/jacksonville-child-prostitution-investigation-results-in-six-arrests/
United States US
On September 16, 2009, the Canadian woman was apprehended by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office as part of an undercover prostitution sting. At that time, the woman became hysterical and advised officers about what had happened to her. The investigation into Townsend's sex trafficking activities then commenced. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office conducted an undercover prostitution sting. Upon arrival in Jacksonville, after stops in many cities down from New York City, Townsend caused the women to engage in commercial sex acts from an abandoned apartment on Edenfield Road and also from the locations of customers, including local homes and hotels. Investigators amassed a large amount of evidence including hotel records, phone records, bank records, and 28 internet ads in which Townsend advertised the victim's availability for commercial sex acts. Investigators also seized a GPS from Townsend's vehicle and were able to establish locations of various customers in Jacksonville from the data contained in the GPS. The Canadian victim testified that Townsend forcibly removed her personal property (including her passport, cell phone, and laptop computer) from her belongings at the residence of Townsend's brother in Thomasville, North Carolina as a means of preventing her from leaving. Investigators actually recovered the woman's hidden passport from inside a stereo speaker at the brother's residence. Evidence also included a social networking message to one of the victims in which Townsend acknowledged that the victim would be beaten for not making "her number," a reference to a nightly quota of $1,000.00.
United States US
Source: Queens DA Press Release 4/15/10... http://www.queensda.org/newpressreleases/2010/april/gaston_campbell_4_14_2010.pdf The District Attorney identified the defendant as Woodley Gaston, 24, of 118-08 Rockaway Boulevard in Queens. Gaston was arraigned today before Queens County Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter on an indictment charging him with sex trafficking, second- and third-degree promoting prostitution and second-degree assault. He is presently awaiting trial on another indictment charging him with sex trafficking, second- and third-degree promoting prostitution, third- degree rape, and endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted, the defendant faces up to 25 years in prison on each indictment. He was ordered held without bail. The District Attorney further stated that a second man, Archie Campbell, 23, of 128-03 North Conduit, in Queens, has been charged in the same indictment with third-degree promoting prostitution for allegedly acting as a pimp for the same victim during a three month period between September and December 2007. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. He was also arraigned before Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter and ordered held without bail.
South Africa ZA
Victim Alleges that she was held captive by a Nigeria Trafficking ring for over a year. Trafficker originally recruited four girls from Zimbabwe to work in a hotel. The youngest was 15 the oldest was 19. She claims when they reached the Zimbabwe/South Africa border, the girls were bought gifts and given drinks that were drugged. When they woke up they were in a back of a van and their trafficker told them they were in South Africa. They arrived at a flat in Johannesburg where they were sold to a Nigerian crime syndicate and forced into prostitution.
South Africa ZA
Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) chief David Tembe is willing to take action. When the journalists from Carte Blanche spoke to Tembe, he said, “As JMPD, we will work hand-in-hand to assist in bringing this to justice. Whatever investigation that you have done, please let us know so that I can contact crime intelligence from the SAPS and we'll work together to ensure that this comes to an end.” The Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities was also shocked by this investigation. Nolu Thando Mayende-Sibiya (Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities) commented: “We are going to ensure that there is a full investigation into the issues challenging the people here. I must say, we are concerned about what is happening. The problem is bigger than what it seems.”
Uganda UG
A 16 year old girl was promised that she would be taken back to school by her aunt. Instead she was forced to be a house servant. She was often beaten and denied food when she didn't complete her tasks.
United States US
A Missouri man recruited workers from the Dominican Republic with false promises of hotel jobs in the Kansas City area, knowing they would not be paid the promised wages, that many would be sent to factory jobs in Alabama, and that threats of deportation would be used to keep them working.
Uganda UG
The 16 year old girl was abducted by Mrs. Gayita and taken to another woman’s home where she was forced to work as a nanny and house girl. For the two months she worked, she was never paid. When sent to town to buy something for her trafficker, the girl came back to find her house abandoned. She contacted Mrs. Gayita asking for help, and in return her abducter took her into her home. There, she was repeatedly raped by her abducter’s husband.
South Africa ZA
On Saturday, May 29th, Police were tipped off about a number of women between 23 and 27 years old, who were being sexually exploited in Kempton Park. The Hawks specialized crime-fighting unit raided the brothel. The women are suspected to have been trafficked, but further investigation is occurring.
Australia AU
The case was initially brought to the attention of the authorities by an informant in 1997 and it resulted in the arrest of Mr Glazner 14 months later in 1999. Glazner had bought Thai women from agents in Thailand for between $15,000 and $18,000, and they had knowingly come to Australia to work as prostitutes (McKinney 2001). Evidence was presented at an initial committal hearing showing that the women feared Glazner and that he withheld their passports, restricted their movements, and kept them in debt bondage (Police vs. Gary Galzner and Paul Donato Marino 1999). Detective Senior Sergeant Ivan McKinney outlined the evidence presented (at the committal hearing and trial) at a public forum in 2001. He said Glazner chose to enforce the “contract” under the first condition of 500 “free jobs”, each job being a half hour of sex. (McKinney 2001). At least 40 women were proven to be connected to Glazner through DIMIA records. Investigators suspected four to five times this many women were involved. The women were generally prostituted for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. McKinney detailed the conditions of sexual servitude under which the women were kept upon arrival in Australia. Their living conditions at the Kew hotel where they were housed were extremely cramped and they were locked in. Glazner had installed a large locked iron gate and bars on the stairwells, and sealed the windows. Glazner or an associate drove them to and picked them up from the brothel where they were prostituted (McKinney 2001). Journalist Mark Forbes, reporting on the trial for the Age newspaper, wrote that Glazner had verbally abused and intimidated the women, and kept a loaded gun in clear view of the women at the hotel (Forbes 1999). The women feared for their lives and of reprisals against themselves or their families back in Thailand. As “Michelle’s” translator stated for her at the trial: “She said if she is here, maybe she will die. If she goes back to Thailand, she will die” (Police vs. Gary Galzner and Paul Donato Marino 1999.
Uganda UG
A 13 year old girl was taken from her grandmother by her older sister. She was forced to clean the clothes, house, dishes, and salon. She was denied food if she didn't finish her tasks.
Uganda UG
A CSW in the home where the 14 year old was working as a housecleaner got help from UYDEL and brought the girl in because she knew what would happen to her in the future.
United States US
Dwayne Charles Love, 24, from Suisan, California. The woman told police that Love had created listings on sexually-oriented websites, and had provided her with a work cell phone that was linked to the listings online, according to the arrest affidavit. She said that she had been at the hotel for three days and during that time, she had sex with four men, Witherspoon had sex with five or six men, and the other woman with three men. She said that she and the other woman would collect the money and give it to Witherspoon, who would give it to Love. She told police she couldn't keep any of the money, but was given a place to stay and food to eat. http://www.kwtx.com/waco/headlines/101919423.html http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=41099
Tonga TO
44 year old female Lirong Liu was charged with the trafficking of two female victims from China to the Kingdom of Tonga under the guise of waitressing jobs. The two victims paid Liu 40,000 Yen for Visas. Upon arrival into Tonga Liu threatened the two women with death and took their passports. The victims were enslaved for two months.
Uganda UG
A 14 year old girl was promised school money by her aunt. When she started working for her, she was forced to carry water, care for the baby, and care for the chickens for no pay. She was often denied food and beaten.
Malaysia MY
Lee In Chiew Age: 49 Businessman and former teacher Was charged in a district court in northern Perlis state Monday with multiple counts of human trafficking. A Malaysian court charged a man with exploiting 63 Indonesian women who claimed they were lured to Malaysia and forced to work as house cleaners with little or no pay, a lawyer said on Tuesday. The women, promised work as maids for 500 ringgit ($160) a month, claimed they were forced to work long hours as cleaners at various houses, mostly without pay, for at least two years. The youngest rescued woman is 17 years old. Malaysia employs nearly 2 million foreigners, mostly from poorer regional countries, in its construction, plantation, manufacturing and service industries. Many complain of overwork, unpaid salaries and sometimes even physical abuse, but prosecutions have been rare.
Brazil BR
The rescue operation/investigation was led by the Ministry of Labor and the Federal Police. The manager was prosecuted (he has been under investigation since 2008). The chief prosecutor reported that a group was formed to investigate this particular job site, and that their actions in this region will be intensified. The prosecution was led by the MPT: "The MPT is an autonomous body which is independent from the legislative, executive and judiciary powers. Its priorities are to promote equality of opportunity; prevent discrimination; eradicate child, slave and degrading labour; guarantee an adequate labour environment; eliminate fraudulent labour practices; protect against irregularities in public administration; protect port and waterway workers and guarantee freedom of association and collective bargaining."
United States US
The state and federal investigators intervened. The NY Labor Religion Coalition wants to meet with Dan O’Hara (NY State Fair Director) over these allegations and they want the State Labor Department to get involved. The United States Department of Labor has confronted Karageorgis who said intends to pay them; however, he does not have the funds as of now. However, when he was arrested he had three wads of cash in his pocket. The case was dismissed because Karageorgis says he will pay the workers.